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Review of 1932

Railroad Hour · 1932 · 29 min · 2,130 words

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Ladies and gentlemen, the Railroad Hour. And here comes the Summer Show Train! The Association of American Railroads, the same railroads that bring you most of the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the fuel you burn, and all the other things you use in your daily life.

It brings you the Railroad Summer Show Train, Transfry, starring Gordon MacRae and featuring New Seal Norman, with the music of Carmen Dragon and the Orchestra, stripped by Gene Holloway, and the choir under the direction of Norman Luboff.

Norman Luebault and now here is our star, Gordon McRae. Thank you, Marvin Miller and good evening ladies and gentlemen. Tonight we're going to ride the summer show train back through time and memory to a year that you lived yesterday.

Tonight's destination, the year 1932. Just around the corner there's a rainmore in the sky. So let's have another cup of coffee, and let's have another piece of wine. Roble just above all, and the public is too mobile.

So let's have another cup of coffee, and let's have another piece of wine. Yes, 1932, the depth of depression. President Herbert Hoover was striving desperately to lift the spirits of the nation. And Mr. Irving Berlin said the President's advice to music.

Mr. Berlin over says that now's the time to buy. So let's have another cup of coffee. Let's have another piece of wine. There seem little enough to sing about, but you sang anyhow. And the songs you like had gayness and confidence.

For the songwriters of the nation write music to lift the spirits when the days are sang. These are said. Rise and shine, stand up and take it. Rise and shine, nice what you make it.

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